Charles Loring Brace
Charles Loring Brace 1826-90, American clergyman and social reformer, b. Litchfield, Conn. America's pioneer children's advocate, he founded (1853) the Children's Aid Society of New York, an organization that established modern methods in child welfare. Brace was also mainly responsible for the "orphan trains" that were common in the decades just preceding and following the Civil War and lasted until about 1930. These trains transported orphans from the crowded, poverty-stricken, and disease-ridden streets of New York City to Midwestern farms and other rural locations, where they were adopted and/or obliged to work. The system improved many lives, but some of the children were exploited as free labor. This practice was the immediate predecessor of the U.S. foster care system. Among Brace's books are Short Sermons to Newsboys (1866) and Gesta Christi (1882).
Bibliography: See G. Trasler, In Place of Parents (1960); T. Bender, Toward an Urban Vision (1982); S. O'Connor, Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed (2001).
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Feudalism in pre-colonial Malaya: the past as a colonial discourse.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; 9/1/1994; ; 700+ words
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Bastard Feudalism. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/1997; ; 700+ words
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Davis, Kathleen, Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time.(Book review)
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Tiny British Island Swaps Feudalism for Democracy
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 3/9/2006; ; 700+ words
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Feudalism termed root cause of bonded labour.
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International; 9/24/2005; 700+ words
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Feuds, feudalism and unfair play ... welcome to Arran
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 6/13/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...has a reputation as a dark corner where feudalism is alive and kicking as a systematic...or parasitic presence." Abolition of feudalism will be one of the main planks of the...may still exist. "The abolition of feudalism may not end the situation you see on...
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The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism
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; ...Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism, by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol. Syracuse...that this class interaction is a form of feudalism that continues to operate to this day...righteous heroes whose variant system of feudalism placed the `amma in the foreground...
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Feudalism in King John's England.(structure of society)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
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Feudalism to stay till end of capitalism: moot told.
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International; 10/11/2007; 575 words
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Feudalism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
FEUDALISM FEUDALISM. Strictly speaking, feudalism refers to the medieval dependency/service relationship between lords and their vassals or to the political subordination and service of lesser lords to higher lords or princes. These medieval...
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feudalism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
feudalism Some historians have argued that feudalism is a technical term that can only be applied to Western...them explicitly formulated a fully developed concept of feudalism. However, as will become apparent below, highly influential...
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bastard feudalism
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
bastard feudalism The term bastard feudalism, Seemingly invented in 1885, has been adopted as a label...tenants of manors had obligations to their lords. With bastard feudalism the bond between a man and his lord was not tenurial but financial...
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Conjunctures, Transitional
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...hypotheses was that the transition from feudalism to capitalism was triggered by the rise...precursors to more centralized versions of feudalism, under absolutist states. Another historian...Perry. 1977. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism . London: NLB. Anderson, Perry. 1979...
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Anderson, Perry
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...bourgeoisie. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism , the first volume of Anderson ’...provides the context for his analysis of feudalism in Lineages of the Absolutist State...production and explains variations in feudalism across Europe in terms of divisions in...
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